Nokogiri 1.2.3 Released

Ruby
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nokogiri version 1.2.3 has been released!

Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser.

Changes:

1.2.3 / 2009-03-22

  • Bugfixes

    • Fixing bug where a node is passed in to Node#new
    • Namespace should be assigned on DocumentFragment creation. LH #66
    • Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet#dup works GH #10
    • Nokogiri::HTML returns an empty Document when given a blank string
      GH#11
    • Adding a child will remove duplicate namespace declarations LH #67
    • Builder methods take a hash as a second argument

FEATURES:

  • XPath support for document searching
  • CSS3 selector support for document searching
  • XML/HTML builder
  • Drop in replacement for Hpricot (though not bug for bug)

Nokogiri parses and searches XML/HTML very quickly, and also has
correctly implemented CSS3 selector support as well as XPath support.

Here is a speed test:

Nokogiri also features an Hpricot compatibility layer to help ease the
change
to using correct CSS and XPath.

SUPPORT:

The Nokogiri mailing list is available here:

The bug tracker is available here:

SYNOPSIS:

require ‘nokogiri’
require ‘open-uri’

Get a Nokogiri::HTML:Document for the page we’re interested in…

doc =
Nokogiri::HTML(open(‘tenderlove - Google Search’))

Do funky things with it using Nokogiri::XML::Node methods…

Search for nodes by css

doc.css(‘h3.r a.l’).each do |link|
puts link.content
end

Search for nodes by xpath

doc.xpath(‘//h3/a[@class=“l”]’).each do |link|
puts link.content
end

Or mix and match.

doc.search(‘h3.r a.l’, ‘//h3/a[@class=“l”]’).each do |link|
puts link.content
end

REQUIREMENTS:

  • ruby 1.8 or 1.9
  • libxml2
  • libxml2-dev
  • libxslt
  • libxslt-dev

INSTALL:

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When I do “gem install nokogiri” I get:

Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing nokogiri:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install nokogiri
checking for #include <iconv.h>
… yes
checking for #include <libxml/parser.h>
… no
libxml2 is missing. try ‘port install libxml2’ or ‘yum install libxml2’

but when I try and do “yum install libxml2” I get:

Package libxml2-2.7.3-1.fc10.i386 already installed and latest version

How can I fix this?

Thanks,

Phil.

Aaron P. wrote:

Changes:

  • Builder methods take a hash as a second argument

end
puts link.content

INSTALL:

–
Philip R.

GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: [email protected]

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Philip R. [email protected]
wrote:

… no
libxml2 is missing. try ‘port install libxml2’ or ‘yum install libxml2’

but when I try and do “yum install libxml2” I get:

yum install libxml2-devel ?

(yay redhat)

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Dick,

Dick D. wrote:

checking for #include <libxml/parser.h>
… no
libxml2 is missing. try ‘port install libxml2’ or ‘yum install libxml2’

but when I try and do “yum install libxml2” I get:

yum install libxml2-devel ?

Yep, had to do libxslt-devel as well but looks good - Thanks!

Phil.

(yay redhat)

–
Philip R.

GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: [email protected]

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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:29:47AM +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:

On Mar 22, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Aaron P. wrote:

  • Builder methods take a hash as a second argument

can builder generate nodes like yet?

It’s possible, just not easy. :wink:

I’m working on it.

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On Mar 22, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Aaron P. wrote:

  • Builder methods take a hash as a second argument

can builder generate nodes like yet?

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/

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On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Aaron P. wrote:

It’s possible, just not easy. :wink:

I’m working on it.

have a look at this

http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/svn/tagz/trunk/

it avoids completes the method missing issues, allows mixing in, and
even supports conditional escaping for factoring out xml/html partials.

i’m using nokogiri for reading now, but tagz for writing

cheers.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/